04 December 2012

Around 1600, the inhabitants of the tiny villages scattered on the steep
hillsides above the sea, built a small chapel at Mortola Superiore and
named it 'Our Lady of the Open Skies.' So-named because of the windy
location on which it was built. In 1873 a church was built but this was
half destroyed by bombs during the Second World War. After the war, it
was rebuilt by the community and in 1963 appointed as a parish church
and has become a meeting plac for the community ever since.

I didn't go inside the church but there is a votive chapel so I will go
back and photograph it. Votive chapels are always so beautiful and so
moving.